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Andrew C
from Ashland, OR

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Jun 06, 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand

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Jun 06, 2013

5/5 stars

Truly an excellent experience. The IDC with Marco and Chris was top-notch and while that experience alone would warrant a five star review, it was the MSDT that put Buddha View above and beyond everyone else. The experience that I gained was invaluable and will serve me for the rest of my career. The staff at Buddha is fun and they really make learning a priority for you. To top it off, Buddha is one of the busiest dive shops in the world so you get plenty of real world experience that cannot be found anywhere else. I would highly recommend Buddha to anyone considering any type of course, especially the IDC and MSDT.

Q. What was the best part about your instructor training?A. The people around me and the friendships I made.

Q. Would you recommend us to friends and why?A. Yes, the environment for learning and gaining experience is excellent.

Q. What convinced you to do your instructor training with us?A. Price and Reputation

Q. What was the weakest part of your IDC and why? Also please suggest how we can improve.A. Sometimes things were not covered to the depth I would have liked. This was probably more a flaw with the PADI IDC than Buddha View but sometimes I felt like boxes were simply checked rather than total instruction provided. Again, I would imagine this is common to any IDC but is something that could be improved on. (For a specific example: Nitrox instruction was a little bit lacking)

Q. What was the best part about your instructor training?A. Learning from Chris Experiences!

Q. What was the weakest part of your IDC and why? Also please suggest how we can improve.A. Rescue Exercise...to much focus on the theory... Theory is a study one has to by oneself anyway but exercise in the water (skills) and rescue skills one may only learn in the groupe!

Andrea
from florence

I become instructor with this dive center.. I spent 4 month in koh tao. . most of this time hanging around the dive school...which becomes the main meeting point and the center of your life! and that's why it's important the choice of the school!!! This is a pretty big dive school..lot's of people all around... instructors who take care of the students.... really good service.. . and.. although there was a big number of people i really enjoyed the family atmosphere of the center!!

final evaluation:

I'm happy with my choice and I would highly recommend it!!!!

And.

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Ashley R
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I completed my IDC in 2011 with Mark at Buddha View, it was without doubt the best choice I made. I had an amazing 6 weeks learning so much from all the instructors their and doing as much diving as I wanted! I feel it has really set me up for a future career in diving.

Since returning to the UK I have applied what I learnt with Mark through my instructor work. I have already sent one person over to complete their IDC with mark and am pursuading another now. If anyone asks me where to do their IDC mark is my first auggestion.

Thanks Ash for the great review. Will be good to catch up again in June and am sure the gf will have a great time on the IDC. Note about the language, I slowed the Australian down so you English could understand. And the post IDC stuff I agree. I have actually been off in Dahab doing some sidemount and gas blender training so we will have a sidemount intro on the idc. Also have been tossing up with Aidy to do soemthing with the vdo with the idc candidates as well. The skin diver workshop we do on the dm course. We get one of the free diving insutructors to take them out for the afternoon. See you soon

Q. What was the best part about your instructor training?A. After party! Woo!

Q. Would you recommend us to friends and why?A. Yes and already have done, amount of time spent with the course directors means anyone will be ready for a career in diving and a guaranteed IDC Pass

Q. What convinced you to do your instructor training with us?A. Packages and koh tao

Q. What was the weakest part of your IDC and why? Also please suggest how we can improve.A. Lack of instructor con ed beyond the standard MSDT, Staff. Not much of a tech side or similar. Maybe do a day of try dives for instructors: free diving, tech, rebreather a, videography?

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3/5 stars

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